Texas Democrats Add Ex-Gay Therapy Ban Into Party Platform

PERSONAL SECURITY AND EQUAL PROTECTION FOR LGBTQ TEXANS
Personal Security: Ban Reparative Therapy
For decades it has been beyond dispute by health professionals that homosexuality is a normal, natural and positive variation of human sexual orientation. Similarly, it is clear that a person’s gender identity — one’s inner sense of being male or female — is deep-seated and cannot be changed. Yet, in 2014, the Republican Party of Texas continues to encourage violence against the very souls of LGBTQ people through the quackery known as “reparative therapy” which is now illegal in two states. Texas Democrats strongly oppose the use of any public funding for this demonstrably harmful practice. We further call on the Texas Medical Board, the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and the Texas Department of State Health Services to fully
investigate and to sanction any practitioner who engages in reparative therapy.